Poor kids. May allah swt protect these little innocent kids insha allah. Its so hard for them to differentiate what these socalled helpers want. Similar exploits have been proven succesful in several poor countries.
300 Muslim Tsunami Orphans to be Christianized: Report
An Acehnese girl waits her family at a temporary school in a refugee camp in Banda Aceh. (Reuters)
CAIRO, January 13 (IslamOnline.net) - Giving credence to fears that Christain missionaries are exploiting the tsunami distaster to proselytize poor and needy Muslims, The Washington Post reported Thursday, January 13, that a US missionary group plans to christianize 300 Muslim children from the Indonesian province of Aceh.
While many religious charities have policies against proselytizing, Virginia-based WorldHelp is an exception raisning money among evangelical Christians by presenting the tsunami as a rare opportunity to make converts in hard-to-reach areas, said the American daily.“Normally, Banda Aceh is closed to foreigners and closed to the gospel,” the missionary group said in a fund appeal on its Web site, according to the Post.“But, because of this catastrophe, our partners there are earning the right to be heard and providing entrance for the gospel.”
The Poststressed that the Web site was changed, and the appeal was removed after a reporter called to inquire about it.
At least 156,000 people have been confirmed killed, thousands missing and millions displaced in several Asian countries in tidal waves triggered by a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake - the world’s biggest in 40 years - which struck deep in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island.Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, lost 110,229 people to the killer sea surges.The Indonesian government estimated that 35,000 children have been made homeless, orphaned or separated from their parents in Aceh, where Muslims make up 98 percent of the population.
Christianize
In its fund-raising appeal, WorldHelp said it was working with Indonesian Christians who want to “plant Christian principles as early as possible” in the 300 Muslim children, all under 12.Rev. Vernon Brewer, president of WorldHelp in Forest, Va., said they raised about 70,000 dollars and were seeking an additional 350,000 dollars to build the Christian orphanage.John Budd, UNICEF Indonesia Communication Officer, said last week that UNICEF's Malaysian office had received an SMS advertising 300 orphans from Aceh aged between three and ten who could be bought.“It's chilling…What this indicates is that they have got children or they have a network where they can identify a child and take them,” he said.Also in reaction to the increasing missionary work, an anonymous electronic text message spread through Indonesia this week.“Please ask among friends who would like to adopt orphans from Aceh. 300 orphans coming soon. Need Muslim homes. Christian missionaries want them. Pls help!” it read.
Immediately after the tidal waves devastated several countries, a number of Christian missionary groups rushed to the affected areas to offer not only relief aid, but more importantly spiritual counseling .
Gospel for Asia, a group seeking to train and send 100,000 native missionaries into the most unreached areas of Asia, was working around the clock to bring food, clean water, medicines, clothing, shelter, and spiritual counseling “in the name of Jesus” to those who lost everything in the killer tidal waves.
Backlash
Acehnese children reach for pencils at a school in a makeshift refugee camp in Banda Aceh. (Reuters)
Brewer, a Baptist minister, claimed that the Indonesian government gave permission for the orphans to be flown to Jakarta and was aware that they would be raised as Christians.Indonesian Vice President Yusuf Kalla announced last week a ban on adoption amid alarming reports about human traffickers spiriting children out of Aceh.He said the children would be placed in orphanages run by the government, Islamic foundations or Muslim boarding schools.The government also said that children under the age of 16 would not be allowed to leave Aceh without their parents.Rev. Arthur Keys, president of International Relief and Development in Arlington, Va., feared overt evangelizing could produce a backlash.“I think there's a danger that all international groups could be tarnished by this,” said Keys, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.“I think we have to go out of our way to assure people that we're there to help, period.”Indonesia asked all foreign troops to leave the country by March 26, a day after the army imposed sweeping restrictions on foreign aid workers in Aceh amid reports that some evangelical groups are mixing Christian missionary work with humanitarian aid.---------------------------------------------------Another deceiveful tactic of the missionaries exploited.
Poor kids. May allah swt protect these little innocent kids insha allah. Its so hard for them to differentiate what these socalled helpers want. Similar exploits have been proven succesful in several poor countries.
Inaa iilahii waa inaa iilah rajiuun....
format_quote Originally Posted by Dore
Ameen,,,
A Christian work is a perfect work.
The Truth.
INteresting.
Get them while they young.
Whomsoever Allah guides none can misguide and whosoever Allah misguides noone can guide.
Allahu Akbar!!
Takbeer.
Allahu Akbar!!
Re: 300 Muslim Tsunami Orphans to be Christianized: Report
format_quote Originally Posted by NEM
So you really advocate forcing children to change their religion?
No.format_quote Originally Posted by Fishman
So you really advocate forcing children to change their religion?
I started in OLD.format_quote Originally Posted by IsaAbdullah
I am younger Today than I was before being reborn throught the gracious spirit of the son of the Almighty Father of whom I Love.
Kadafi the article is old.but its important.
hehe I find the Christians funny.
Re: 300 Muslim Tsunami Orphans to be Christianized: Report
format_quote Originally Posted by NEM
But you said that a Christian work is a perfect work. Doesn't that mean that forcing orphan children to convert is a perfect work (why do my words line up like that so often?)?
Islam also values missionary work (dawah), but 'there is no compulsion in religion', which means that converting people without giving them a choice is wrong. Only Allah can do that.
Ah! we have been seen to be together as one ...format_quote Originally Posted by Emir Aziz
May we be made richer through these kindest of understandings.
Yes! There is no compulsion in our faith, Christians, as they have no power of spiritually, they force them into their religion, we cannot blame these children, they are doing this out of desperation, when they are older they will come back to the straight path inshallah!
A Christian hand will offer perfect healing on the authority of the Almighty Father through guidance of his beloved son ~ another soul has the authority to reach forth to hold that hand independent of all inaction of the exercise of anothers prayerlessness way that would only sustain yet another act of falling behind along the path towards a table of abundance set for every entire family of loving creature before heavens thronekeepers.format_quote Originally Posted by Fishman
But you said that a Christian work is a perfect work. Doesn't that mean that forcing orphan children to convert is a perfect work (why do my words line up like that so often?)?
Islam also values missionary work (dawah), but 'there is no compulsion in religion', which means that converting people without giving them a choice is wrong. Only Allah can do that.
Another way of looking at this.
Isn't it wonderfull that Allah(swt) is giving these children the opportunity to eventually return to Islam out of pure love and understanding, not just as a birthright. they are given the chance for a great reward as compensation for what they lost. Some if not all of them will return and could very well be the tools to streingthen the Ummah,
Be honest with yourselves guys. Is Islam any less guilty when it comes to converting people?
Hmm, I don't know what that had to do with my post.format_quote Originally Posted by NEM
but my fellow son of Adam, I am glad you feel you are younger than before having accepted the gift of The Father his servant Jesus as your saviour.
I am also I guess glad that at least you feel happy, and that you love the Almighty Father.
I hope you keep loving Him.
Peace
format_quote Originally Posted by ManchesterFolk
I know (and appreciate) that Muslims do their bit to spread the Word of Allah. But I don't know many incidences of Muslims forcing their religion on children.
Speaking for myself. I never had even one Muslim ever ask me to revert or to even encourage me to revert, prior to my reverting.format_quote Originally Posted by ManchesterFolk
Where these children ~ go' now unto then ~ It is only one hope that can be shared at this moment' ... and it is in that they are wise enough to believe in goodly ways towards all Creatures even as Man is the same in his Own respects towards himself... So that they might even meet again in Glory purposed to relive the same way's as have ever been perfected since the beginning of our origins together in this world.format_quote Originally Posted by IqramYes! There is no compulsion in our faith, Christians, as they have no power of spiritually, they force them into their religion, we cannot blame these children, they are doing this out of desperation, when they are older they will come back to the straight path inshallah!
Is it?
Well, whoever forces one to revert to Islam, that is not Islam.
When Jerusalem was captured, nobody was forced to become muslims.
Allah also states in the Quraan:
"There is no compulsion in religion" 2:256
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